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IN LOVING MEMORY OF Alvina Cook
Alvina
Cook
Sep 7, 1908 — Dec 25, 2004
Alvina Cook's Obituary
Funeral services for Alvina Cook, age 96 of Hettinger will be 2:00pm Thursday, December 30, at the Evanson-Jensen Funeral Home in Hettinger. Pastor Kathleen Dettmann will officiate with burial in the Hettinger Cemetery.
Serving as casketbearers are Maurice, Bryan, and Brennan Cook, David Moen, Norman Smith, Billy Thorson, and Oray Austin.
Alvina (Moen) Cook died on December 25, 2004 at Hillcrest Care Center in Hettinger. She was a life long resident of the Hettinger and Bucyrus area. She was born on the family homestead located about two miles north and two miles west of Bucyrus to John and Tilda (Thorson) Moen on September 7, 1908. The family moved to Bucyrus when Alvina was between six and eight years old where the family constructed a farm home on the west edge of Bucyrus. Alvina and her brothers Selmer, Clarence and Harvey and her sisters Bertha and Olivia attended grade and high school in Bucyrus. She often remembered playing on the Bucyrus women's basketball team and, not without a little pride, remembered winning over Hettinger a time or two. Alvina attended Winona State Teachers College in Winona, Minnesota and Dickinson State Teachers College where she earned her teachers certificate. She taught school at the Wolf Butte School north of Bucyrus, at Steele and at Bucyrus. During her working career she served as the Adams County Superintendent of Schools, as clerk to the Adams County Judge and as the Hettinger City Auditor. Volunteer service included serving as the secretary to the Hettinger Cemetery Association for over 25 years.
She married Cecil M. Cook on August 6, 1934 in Bison, SD and moved to Hettinger in 1935. Cecil died on March 11, 1992.
She is survived by her son Maurice E. Cook, Bismarck, ND; 2 grandsons, Bryan C. Cook, Brighton, CO; Brennan R. Cook, Bismarck, ND; 1 brother and sister-in-law, Harvey and Esther Moen, Helena, MT. Alvina was preceded in death by her parents, 2 brothers, Selmer and Clarence; 2 sisters, Bertha Olson and Olivia Vatland.
Funeral arrangements are under the guidance of the Evanson-Jensen Funeral Home in Hettinger.
Serving as casketbearers are Maurice, Bryan, and Brennan Cook, David Moen, Norman Smith, Billy Thorson, and Oray Austin.
Alvina (Moen) Cook died on December 25, 2004 at Hillcrest Care Center in Hettinger. She was a life long resident of the Hettinger and Bucyrus area. She was born on the family homestead located about two miles north and two miles west of Bucyrus to John and Tilda (Thorson) Moen on September 7, 1908. The family moved to Bucyrus when Alvina was between six and eight years old where the family constructed a farm home on the west edge of Bucyrus. Alvina and her brothers Selmer, Clarence and Harvey and her sisters Bertha and Olivia attended grade and high school in Bucyrus. She often remembered playing on the Bucyrus women's basketball team and, not without a little pride, remembered winning over Hettinger a time or two. Alvina attended Winona State Teachers College in Winona, Minnesota and Dickinson State Teachers College where she earned her teachers certificate. She taught school at the Wolf Butte School north of Bucyrus, at Steele and at Bucyrus. During her working career she served as the Adams County Superintendent of Schools, as clerk to the Adams County Judge and as the Hettinger City Auditor. Volunteer service included serving as the secretary to the Hettinger Cemetery Association for over 25 years.
She married Cecil M. Cook on August 6, 1934 in Bison, SD and moved to Hettinger in 1935. Cecil died on March 11, 1992.
She is survived by her son Maurice E. Cook, Bismarck, ND; 2 grandsons, Bryan C. Cook, Brighton, CO; Brennan R. Cook, Bismarck, ND; 1 brother and sister-in-law, Harvey and Esther Moen, Helena, MT. Alvina was preceded in death by her parents, 2 brothers, Selmer and Clarence; 2 sisters, Bertha Olson and Olivia Vatland.
Funeral arrangements are under the guidance of the Evanson-Jensen Funeral Home in Hettinger.
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